Improvement in wool presses



e. M. BRIGGS.

WOOL PRBss',

No. 62,930. Patented Mar. 19, 1 867.

. does notsepolmte .tl'zo fibres ofthe fleece, as in the ordinary method of folding-{but turned in, and the follower caused to odvnnee, by turning the winchc, which forces and compresses the fleece towards the opposite end, where it receives its final pressure in the square box, formed as before deserihed nnd.v shown in 5g. 2. I The compact moss is now secured 'withigreet facility, by bringing up the ends of the strings c c and t t successively, and tying them on top, when the follower is reversed, leasing the bundle in a. most regular and compactform for handling and stowing-hwoy; The twine is again -fixed in place, when the apparatus is ready for a. seeond fleece. I

The advantages of my invention are as follows The ease and rapidity withwhich a. fleece may be tied up;

the regular and squar packs them together in the natural position in Wili0h they are when first removed from the sheep thespeees'fouthe twine, in'oomhination with the separate Boxes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, for the balls, prevent-its becoming "entangled, an i keep ea h siren?! in the place required," thereby greatly expediting the process of tying. n

What I claim hs my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-- The separate twine reeeptecles '1, 2, 3, 4,'"5, 6, and corresponding. grooves a a a and Z1 6 b, when combined and {arranged with th'e'stationary bed A A, fixed compressing box D D, and follower E, substantially in the manner and for the purposes deserihed.

In witness'whereof I have hereunto signed myname in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE M. BRIGGS.

' Witnesses:

JAY Hum, ALBERT Hnron'r.

e form and compactness of the bundle; the mode of;oo mpression by means of thevfollower I 

